Bangladesh registered 34 more deaths from Covid-19 in the 24 hours till Saturday morning, taking the number of total fatalities to 4,702.
The country also logged more than 336,000 coronavirus cases with 1,282 people testing positive over the same period.
With this development, the number of all confirmed cases so far jumped to 336,044.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) revealed the latest figures on Covid-19 in the country with a press release on Saturday.
Of the 34 deceased, including 23 men, 17 were from Dhaka division, seven from Chittagong, five from Rajshahi, four from Khulna, and one from Mymensingh divisions.
So far, 3,661 men (77.86%) and 1,041 women (22.14%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.40%.
The DGHS said 10,098 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
As many as 10,723 samples, including the pending ones, were tested in the 94 authorized labs -- government and private -- across the country and 1,282 new patients were confirmed.
The latest figures show an infection rate of 11.96%.
To date, 1,715,481 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 19.59% so far.
The health authorities said 2,247 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 238,271 patients — 70.90% of all infected — have made full recovery across the country.
On March 8, health authorities in Bangladesh reported the first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a new coronavirus strain which was later named Sars-CoV-2.
The novel coronavirus broke out in China's Wuhan city in late December last year and quickly spread throughout the world, becoming a pandemic in less than three months.
The fast spreading coronavirus has claimed 920,343 lives and infected 28,688,483 people across the world till Saturday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
As many as 20,603,611 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has spread to 213 countries and territories across the planet.
